Mick Murphy (Sinn Féin politician)

Mick Murphy
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum
In office 1996–1998
Constituency	South Down
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
In office 1998–2003
Succeeded by	Caitriona Ruane
Constituency	South Down
Councillor on Newry and Mourne District Council
In office 1997–2003
Personal details
Born	6 February 1942 Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin

Michael Murphy (born 6 February 1942) is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. Active in Irish republicanism after getting involved with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association of the 1960s, he worked as a publican. In 1996 he was elected as a member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Sinn Féin in South Down. Murphy was the unsuccessful Sinn Féin candidate for South Down in the 1997 election to the United Kingdom Parliament; a few months later he was elected to Newry and Mourne District Council.

He was then elected from the same constituency to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998.^[1][2] He was Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing. He was again elected as a councillor for Newry and Mourne District Council from the Crotlieve electoral area in 2005.

References

1. NI Assembly Biography
2. 1998 NI Assembly Election Results